[H-GEN] oops - debian unstable woes

[Sandra Milne]

At 00:12 5/01/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>People who dist-upgrade to fix a problem with just one package deserve
>what they get.

I had some misgivings about it, and I'm hardly surprised that something is 
broken. However saying "I told you so" isn't good for harmony in the home ;-)

>Sounds like the X server configuration is somehow incorrect.

Yup it does. I'm just not sure what to do about it other than perhaps try 
out the binary driver supplied by NVidia.

>Why use xf86config?  The debconf frontend for X works just fine.

It asks us questions we don't understand, although your paste led us to the 
excellent man page -- thanks for that! I didn't realise there was a man 
page for the config file, although a little thought would probably have led 
to the trying of various man pages.

>Try checking the Bug Tracking System,
>http://bugs.debian.org/xserver-xfree86 .  Unfortunately this package
>is both large and widely used, so it often has a large list of bugs,

Yes it is a rather large list. There was one that matched in the 'resolved' 
section, however the person resolving said that the person reporting the 
bug was using the NVidia driver and therefore support was not going to be 
provided.

>Next, start checking your X server config file into RCS.  You *will*

I'm assuming RCS is some sort of revision control. Sounds like a great 
idea, thanks.

>As a piece of future-proofing advice, I think you should have taken
>more time to diagnose the problem with gcc and zangband, and perhaps
>installed a different version of gcc (say 2.95) first, instead of
>blithely upgrading and just hoping things will be okay.  They rarely
>are (but of course sometimes a wholesale upgrade is warranted).

Yes well this is of course something I would have considered had it been me 
in the situation. Fortunately he has his own computer so mine is still ok. :-)

>[1] : $ nethack -s all | $EDITOR
>       No  Points     Name                                   Hp [max]
>        1    2660620  Drick-Pri-Hum-Mal-Neu died on the Astral Plane.
>                      Killed by Pestilence (with the Amulet). - [225]

Ouch. My condolences.

Sandra.

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